Thursday, August 27, 2015

Warrenpoint: Always remembered

At least 18 soldiers have been killed in two booby-trap bomb
attacks at Warrenpoint, South Down, close to the border with the Irish
Republic. It is the highest death toll suffered by the British Army in a single
incident since it arrived in Northern Ireland to restore order a decade
ago.The IRA are believed to be behind the attack.It came only hours after the Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, was
killed in an IRA bomb attack in Donegal Bay in the Irish Republic.

The day after the
bombs went-off, Officers and men from 2 Para paraded at the scene of the
blast to pay their respect to their fellow soldiers